So it turns out that one big reason why New York City charter schools have fewer kids in special education is that a child at a charter is more likely to escape special ed than one attending a traditional public school. They do a better job of getting kids out of it, and of keeping at-risk kids from falling into it.

It’s a far more complicated picture than the one critics paint.

Why won’t America’s public schools and teachers’ unions raise the bar for African American students?

Eva Moskowitz isn’t satisfied. The poor, black and Hispanic students in her 14 charter schools just knocked the new state tests out of the park, but she had wanted even more. These are the same tests that most city students failed, leading many educrats to argue the tests were too hard.